WebMaster View raises a couple interesting points about the question a lot of people ask: ‘Why Blog’?
People like to hear what you think. People like opinions. People like to learn.
…Write with passion and everything else will fall into place.
??Via: Paul Scrivens via WebMaster View??
A neat trick in iTunes 4.5 that changes the little arrows next to each artist/album/title to search your library for that string instead of the iTunes Music Store.
Pop open terminal and input this command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
??Via: Justin Williams??
Ben Fry made this neat thing called zipdecode that visually ‘decodes’ zip codes as you type them. It’s pretty neat because it shows you the logic that the post office had when assigning zip codes to different geographic locations. If nothing else, it’s something you could waste a couple minutes with. And it might be handy if you want to lookup where someplace is.
Brad Choate opened up his Applications Folder showing the world what apps he uses on a regular basis.
I thought I’d just append a couple to the list:
In one of the funnier remakes of the Star Wars Kid video, somebody merged the footage with scenes from Kill Bill (vol 1 and 2).
Via: Boing Boing
I while back I wrote about a new website called Orkut created by some Google employees that aims to be a social service allowing you to list your contacts and create a web of people you know and their contacts.
Anyway, I’ve got about 20 friends signed up with the service right now. Yesterday I came across a website that would create a visual map of your contacts by locations and their friends.
If you want to see your locality added to the map (ie, sign up for the website and add me as a friend) please send me an email and I’ll send you an invitation. (Just a note, the site is invitation only so the only way you can get yourself added is by having a current member invite you).
One has to wonder how my site shows up as the number two result when searching for UConn Riots 2004.
Interesting searches people have used to find my site:
Just blogging some of the interesting things I’ve stumbled across the past couple days:
Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.
??Via: Kinja??
Of course, I signed and included all of the blogs I read of people I don’t know. So therefore don’t expect your listings to show up if I know you. My Kinja page does, however, give you a glimpse into other people’s blogs/news sites I find interesting.
Brad Froehle 